College of Information and Computer Science, Long Island University
Published by July 12th, 2008
in digital divide, Africa and journals.
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Academic and professional literature publisher Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. is collaborating with several academic institutions to send journal archives to universities in Africa. This initiative was launched to encourage the recycling and reuse of past publications that may still be of use to students and researchers in emerging economies.
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Published by June 7th, 2008
in web sites, internet, computer science and journals.
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JCMC is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that focuses on social science research on the Internet and wireless technologies. Find archives back to 1995 (most recent issues at a linked site). Topics include online social networks, blogging, types of fantasy sports users, social and economic dimensions of search engines, and more. Sponsored by the Indiana University School of Library & Information Science and School of Informatics. An official journal of the International Communication Association.
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (JCMC) website
Published by June 1st, 2008
in libraries, library services, journals and United Kingdom.
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The British Library has announced that it is making 1,500 journals available for immediate download at http://direct.bl.uk. A huge variety of titles will be added on June 1, 2008, ranging from science, medicine and technology through to politics, history, anthropology and literature. The move is in response to customers’ growing need for instant digital access to research material.
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Published by March 16th, 2008
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MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and STM publisher Elsevier have agreed to make available figures and text selections from any of the latter’s over 2,000 journal titles for use on OCW. Under the deal, select Elsevier content can now be included within the open access OCW course materials - to be freely downloaded, used and shared under a Creative Commons license.
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Published by February 25th, 2008
in China, mobile/cell phones and journals.
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Presenter, Inc. a pioneer in Internet and mobile computing technologies for business communication, recently launched a pilot run of journal abstracts over mobile phone. Run in two cities in China, the pilot covers about 150 doctors who will receive journal abstracts in text and images through MMS messaging.
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Published by February 25th, 2008
in libraries and journals.
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In what librarians are calling “a turning point in scholarly publishing” the Indiana University (IU) library this week published the university’s first “faculty-generated” open access electronic journal, the Museum Anthropology Review. The journal, edited by Jason Baird Jackson, associate professor in IU’s Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, was chartered last February as part of a pilot project within the library’s larger scholarly communication initiative, IUScholarWorks, designed to offer faculty “a low-cost solution to the administrative and publishing functions.”
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Published by February 18th, 2008
in blogs, publishing and journals.
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Marcus Banks writes: “I’ve became firmly convinced that the traditional journal model is antiquated for sharing research and knowledge among librarians. A better course is to develop and nurture excellent blogs, with multimedia capabilities and guaranteed preservation of the postings. This could be an entirely new blog that starts from scratch, or an established journal that evolves into a blog.”
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Published by December 22nd, 2007
in journalism, digital, publishing and journals.
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BusinessWeek announced internally that it was merging its print and digital editorial operations and letting go a dozen editorial and business staff members. In an internal memo that was posted on the Web site Talking Biz News, BusinessWeek Editor in Chief Stephen Adler said: “For the past three years, we’ve been moving progressively toward integrating our print and digital operations—by increasing reporters’ contributions to Businessweek.com, combining our overseas bureaus and copy-desk teams, and seating together everyone within a given coverage area.”
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Published by December 16th, 2007
in digital, ARL and journals.
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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published “The E-only Tipping Point for Journals: What’s Ahead in the Print-to-Electronic Transition Zone,” by Richard K. Johnson and Judy Luther. The report examines the issues associated with the migration from dual-format publishing toward electronic-only publication of journals. Publishers and libraries today find themselves in an extended transition zone between print-only and e-only journals. Both parties are struggling with the demands of dual-format publishing as well as the opportunity costs of keeping electronic journals operating within the bounds of the print publishing process, which are increasingly taxing the status quo for publishers, libraries, authors, and readers. There are suggestions that this transitional phase is especially challenging to small publishers of high-quality titles and places them at a disadvantage in relation to large, resource-rich publishers as they compete for subscribers, authors, and readers. The question of when dual-format journals will complete the transition to single-format (electronic) publishing is taking on increasing urgency.
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Published by December 16th, 2007
in collections, open access and journals.
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The sponsors of the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) have announced that the directory now contains 3,000 quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The usage of DOAJ has seen constant increase across all parameters, with the service being used by visitors from more than 160 countries. In addition, hundreds of libraries across the globe have included the DOAJ titles in their catalogues and other services, and commercial aggregators are also benefiting from the service.
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